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Phillip Hamrick; Christopher A. Was; Yin Zhang – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2024
A growing body of evidence demonstrates that individual differences in declarative memory may be an important predictor of second language (L2) abilities. However, the evidence comes from studies using different declarative memory tasks that vary in their reliance on verbal abilities and task demands, which preclude estimating the size of the…
Descriptors: Verbal Ability, Nonverbal Ability, Task Analysis, Second Language Instruction
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Erin S. M. Matsuba; Beth A. Prieve; Emily Cary; Devon Pacheco; Angela Madrid; Elizabeth McKernan; Elizabeth Kaplan-Kahn; Natalie Russo – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
This study characterizes the subcortical auditory brainstem response (speech-ABR) and cortical auditory processing (P1 and Mismatch Negativity; MMN) to speech sounds and their relationship to autistic traits and sensory features within the same group of autistic children (n = 10) matched on age and non-verbal IQ to their typically developing (TD)…
Descriptors: Correlation, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Language Processing
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Georgios P. Georgiou; Aretousa Giannakou – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2024
Although extensive research has focused on the perceptual abilities of second language (L2) learners, a significant gap persists in understanding how cognitive functions like phonological short-term memory (PSTM) and nonverbal intelligence (IQ) impact L2 speech perception. This study sets out to investigate the discrimination of L2 English…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Ability, Second Language Learning, Short Term Memory, Accuracy
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Jiao Du; Xiaowei He; Haopeng Yu – First Language, 2025
We used the elicited production task to explore the production of short and long passives in 15 Mandarin-speaking preschool children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD; aged 4;2-5;11) in comparison with 15 Typically Developing Aged-matched (TDA) children (aged 4;3-5;8) and 15 Typically Developing Younger (TDY) children (aged 3;2-4;3). This…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Form Classes (Languages), Child Language, Language Impairments
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Yu Ka Wong; Barry Bai; Catherine McBride; Mark Shiu Kei Shum; Yanling Zhou – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2024
The effects of transcription skills, comprising both spelling and handwriting fluency, on sentence writing among young Chinese as a second language (CSL) learners were evaluated and compared to those of reading and oral language using a one-year longitudinal study design. Various writing models postulated that transcription skills are essential in…
Descriptors: Chinese, Nonverbal Ability, Writing Skills, Longitudinal Studies
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Haoyan Ge; Albert Kwing Lok Lee; Hoi Kwan Yuen; Fang Liu; Virginia Yip – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
This study investigated bilingualism effects on the production of focus in 5- to 9-year-old Cantonese-English bilingual autistic children's L1 Cantonese, compared to their monolingual autistic peers as well as monolingual and bilingual typically developing children matched in nonverbal IQ, working memory, receptive vocabulary and maternal…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Bilingualism, Native Language, Second Language Learning